Obama's Parenting Skills

February 8, 2010|Helena E. Hughes, Fort Lauderdale

The president lectures, explains a problem again and again, and when he thinks we have not got it yet, he explains it once more. We, the children, get it - we really, really do. We speak up and try to reason with him, but he seems tone deaf. The children get frustrated and end up thinking that their father is arrogant and aloof. What is the result of this situation? He loses our respect. We get the feeling that we have to find someone else who will listen to us and will try to solve our problems.